Turkey, Football, & JFK? Oh My!
November 21, 2007 by Texas Cloverleaf · Leave a Comment
Welcome to the Thanksgiving holiday episode of the Capitol Annex. In case you are wondering where your usual party host Vince is, he is spending time with his family. As for The Texas Cloverleaf, we have no life. Well, we do have a life, but it is being spent sans traveling to any relatives’ homes. So, we have agreed to guest blog during the long weekend, along with some other Texas Progressive Alliance bloggers.
Thanksgiving in our world has been traditionally spent gorging on food you wouldn’t normally eat any other time of year (does anyone eat cranberry sauce in July?). It is also spent watching football and massive balloons crushing people on 5th Avenue. But for some this year, it will be spent observing a morbid spot in Dallas history.
November 22 marks the 44th anniversary of the assasination of John F. Kennedy. Undoubtedly, as Dallas Morning News columnist Jacquielynn Floyd suggests, there will be a mass rally of craziness. Even on normal days, you can spot people selling conspiracy flyers on the corner that welcomes you to Dealey Plaza and the Sixth Floor Museum. The whole set up really does seem to actually want to attract whack jobs. Where else can you climb to the exact spot that an American President was shot from and look out the window? On top of that, what other city marks the road, so you can see the exact location said President was when he took rifle shots to the head? Can’t visit Dallas? Have no fear! Look out the window from the web cam.
We hope those of you who do visit Dealey Plaza on Thanksgiving will use it as a time of thanks and celebration. Even though you may have to contend with 9-11 conspiracy theorists and Homeland Security agents when you go, remember that JFK gave his life for the freedom of Americans to choose to be conspiracy theorists. He gave his life, so that we have the right to stand in that same location and protest the current American President. We give thanks to John F. Kennedy. May everyone in and outside of Dallas eat lots of turkey in his honor. Happy Thanksgiving and Go Cowboys!
